Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
underling orinferior in office. - noun A
freelance operator forMI5 .
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Examples
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Mark Hoban, a George Osborne understrapper and financial secretary to the Treasury, who does not inspire confidence.
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"I suppose you've received information, by bush-telegraph, that that third assistant understrapper and ex-sailorman at Tulagi is going to deport me as an undesirable immigrant."
Chapter 9 2010
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Mark Hoban, a George Osborne understrapper and financial secretary to the Treasury, who does not inspire confidence.
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So the matter was put in the hands of Mark Hoban, an Osborne understrapper and financial secretary to the Treasury.
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Them is only one white man, a third assistant understrapper and ex - sailor -- a common sailor.
Chapter 6 2010
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So the matter was put in the hands of Mark Hoban, an Osborne understrapper and financial secretary to the Treasury.
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I had married a wife, and could not submit to be an understrapper to a physician.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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By the industry of his understrapper, he procured a number of old crazy fiddles, which were thrown aside as lumber; upon which he counterfeited the
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Nor did this well-instructed understrapper omit those other parts of her cue which the principal judged necessary for the furtherance of his scheme.
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Having thus profitably exercised his genius, this subtle politician thought it high time to relinquish his military expectations, and securing all his valuable acquisitions about his own person, rode out with his understrapper, in the midst of fifty dragoons, who went in quest of forage.
bilby commented on the word understrapper
"An inferior in any office, or department."
- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'.
September 9, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word understrapper
A petty fellow, underling.
June 14, 2010
yarb commented on the word understrapper
"...his understrapper, according to his instructions, came afterwards to the inn..."
— Smollett, Peregrine Pickle
May 2, 2022